Quotes About Serenity

His normal state was silence.

The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys peace.

One without attachment is free from sorrow.

He once recounted a time when he was trying to meditate and kept getting interrupted by sounds from a festival in a nearby village. Then, as he recalls it, he had a realization: "The sound is just the sound. It's me who is going out to annoy it. If I leave the sound alone, it won't annoy me. . . . If I don't go out and bother the sound, it's not going to bother me.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

liberation from the persistent desire for things to be different than they are.

And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.

There are silences made just for us.

She says to the fog: it's all right, I'm staying with you

Diarrhea is hardly ever a good thing, but going to the bathroom once or twice a day brings serenity and balance, a kind of inner peace. Not great inner peace, but a small and shining inner peace.

Her silence wasn't unpleasant, not did it imply resentment or sadness. It was transparent, not dense. It took up almost no space.

la noche del DF, una noche que a mí siempre me ha parecido preciosa, generalmente las noches aquí son frescas, brillantes, pero no frías, noches hechas para pasear o para coger, noches hechas para platicar sin apuro.

mostanában észrevettem magamon egy nyugtalanító tendenciát, elfogadom a dolgokat olyannak, amilyenek.

Su voz sonó tranquila, como la de un hombre que sabe que la vida siempre acaba mal y que no vale la pena exaltarse...

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, for they heed not thy vexation.

The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.

Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort o peace?

So many things were easier to live with if you didn't give them much thought. p. 28

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.

Está en la naturaleza del mundo que todas las cosas busquen un ritmo, y en ese ritmo anhelen una especie de paz?

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt?

I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.